(Editors note: The Bee’s police blotter is a sampling of unusual, sometimes humorous calls received by the police department. It is not intended to be a complete record of all incidents reported.)

Aug. 9

• Police received a call on Beach Road of a dog stuck in a glass block window.

• A passerby complained that a male was standing on the porch of a Cayuga Creek Road home with his pants down and touching himself.

• Police received a call of two women hitchhiking on Walden Avenue. The complainant told police he though the women were in trouble because they looked like “they’ve been sleeping in fields.”

• A Pinehurst Avenue resident complained that youths from across the street were hitting golf balls at his house, causing damage.

• A Transit Road business manager requested a checkpoint, because he expected 80 to 100 people to be waiting outside the store between 9 p.m. and midnight for the release of the Madden 2011 video game.

Total Calls Received: 150

Aug. 10

• A Como Park Boulevard resident reported that a neighbor was shooting at baby deer with a BB gun.

• A Boll Street woman said a neighbor was putting garbage on her property.

Total Calls Received: 135

Aug. 11

• Police received a call on Long Avenue that a German shepherd would not let the mail carrier deliver the mail.

• Officers responded to a neighbor dispute on Lille Lane, after a resident complained that neighbors had yelled at the complainant’s grandchildren and made them cry.

• Police responded to a call on Lehigh Street of youths throwing couches into the roadway. The furniture was removed from the street.

• A Castlewood Drive resident was reportedly burned on the leg after Spam blew up on the resident’s grill.

Total Calls Received: 136

Aug. 12

• A business owner reported that his phone number had been placed on Craig’sList with the line “offering one last fling” and now the “phone is ringing like crazy.”

Total Calls Received: 149

Aug. 13

• Officers responded to a call of a male urinating in public on French Road.

• Police responded to a call of an unsupervised 6-year-old boy at a pool on Harlem Road. The boy’s mother had reportedly paid an 8-year-old boy at the pool to watch her son. The mother was advised by police.

• A woman staying in a Dick Road hotel complained that twice during the night the fire alarm sounded and both times, she and other guests were stranded in the hallway by the fire doors.

Total Calls Received: 155

Aug. 14

• A George Urban Boulevard woman reported that an unknown person left a broken power washer on her porch.

• Police received a call of a male walking in and out of traffic on Broadway. The man was advised to use the sidewalk.

• A Woodell Avenue resident reported that four males on motorcycles were speeding up and down the street and doing wheelies.

Total Calls Received: 123

Aug. 15

• Police received a call of several small kittens wandering around on Preston Road.

• A Wanda Avenue resident reported that the tenant in the upper apartment opened all his screens while he was out, allowing his cats to escape into the yard.

• Police received a call of a male in a blue sedan on Ellsworth Drive looking at pornography on a laptop, while not wearing pants.

Total Calls Received: 145